![]() ![]() Slavery and its residue - racism - are at the core of the novel.Įven Lexington, thought to be the fastest horse ever, is affected by racism and greed. Two other lives, those of a 19th-century portrait painter and a 20th-century gallery owner, support these central stories, functioning as connective tissue to the horse's portrait. The novel weaves three main stories: that of an enslaved person tending to a colt who becomes a phenomenal racehorse that of a Nigerian American grad student who, having happened upon a lost painting of the horse, makes Lexington the focus of his dissertation and that of the horse itself. ![]() ![]() Readers will come away from the novel wondering at the intransigence of racism in America and, if they are people of faith, uncomfortable with the fact that worship groups have not done a better job of denting the self-interest that helps racism hold sway in the U.S. Her multiple plots and sets of characters collaborate to achieve a single effect - an effect that is itself unsettling. In Horse, author Geraldine Brooks' control of her craft is on full display. ![]()
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